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Rewatchables episodes featuring Bryan Cranston’s films
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Casting What-Ifs
Rogen and Franco were originally assigned opposite roles, Olivia Thirlby preceded Heard, and Bryan Cranston was rejected for Ted Jones as insufficiently scary immediately before Breaking Bad.
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- A triple swap putting McBride as Dale, Rogen as Saul, and Franco as Red is an earlier hypothetical.
- Cranston’s rejection for a drug-dealer role became especially ironic when Breaking Bad premiered around the film’s release.
Apex Mountain
Ben Affleck; Scoot McNairy; Iran hostage crisis movies and TV; the other five of the Argo Six; Bryan Cranston
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- Affleck is a yes: the Oscar, the sympathetic narrative, a Fincher movie next and Batman after Gone Baby Gone and The Town. — Chris Ryan
- Scoot McNary is probably a yes. — Chris Ryan
- Arkin is a no because of Little Miss Sunshine. — Chris Ryan
- Goodman is a no. — Bill Simmons
- Movies or TV shows about the Iran hostage crisis get a yes, with probably no others. — Bill Simmons
- The other five of the Argo Six get a yes. — Bill Simmons
- Tate Donovan's own Apex is floated as Friends before settling on season one of The O.C. — Bill Simmons
- Cranston first gets a no for Breaking Bad, then a yes on the argument that Breaking Bad is surging toward its finale while he establishes himself in movies. — Bill Simmons
- The CIA is joked about as making a comeback after killing JFK, but no explicit Apex yes is given. — Bill Simmons
- Whether this is the Apex for exfils is asked but drifts into Proof of Life and Predator without an answer; exfiltration is defined. — Bill Simmons
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- Brian Carriston goes all in on the "call the White House, do your job" phone call, as if he knew the category would exist nine years later. — Bill Simmons
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